Re: Oracle 8.1.7 installation on Windows XP

Question:

Did Oracle certify 8.1.7 for Windoze XP?

Why on earth do you want to install it on an uncertified platform? Windoze has never been 100% downwards compatible.

Regards,

Sybrand Bakker
Senior Oracle DBA

"Aziz" <azizbash_at_home.com> wrote in message news:ilXC7.369462$j65.95699840_at_news4.rdc1.on.home.com...
> I tried jdk1.1.8 but Oracle setup still does not start.
> I can force the Oracle installation by applying the follwoig steps:
>
> 1) Copy the Insatll folder from CD to loacl C: drive, for example to
c:\temp
> 2) Modify the oraparam.ini, to read the full path of SOURCE, JRE_LOCALTION
> and OUI_LOCATION
> from the CD
> 3) Change the JRE_MEMORY_OPTION line to add "-nojit" argument
> 4) Lunch setup.exe from the C: drive
>
> In this case the Installtion goes up to 100% and then fail at the
> installation of Net Esay configuarion.
>
> Even in this case I can not use Oracle. Too bad.
>
> "Allen Li" <allenlee_at_primus.ca> wrote in message
> news:z7IC7.17291$Fv4.95326_at_news.tor.primus.ca...
> > I can help you as I had the same experience of installing oracle8i(817)
> > in a P4 machine. The problem is the JVM of oracle817 may not support
> > P4.
> > Salution: (1) Download jdk1.1.8 from java.sun.com and install it on your
> > machine.
> > (2) Copy oracle817 Disc into your harddisk such as e:\oracle817.
> > (3) Copy the whole directory of JVM of just installation into
> >
>

e:\oracle817\stage\Components\oracle.swd.jre\1.1.7.30\1\DataFiles\Expanded\j
> > re\win32, that is using sun JVM overwriting this JVM.
> >
> > Good luck.
> >
> >
> > "Aziz" <azizb_at_sprint.ca> wrote in message
> > news:ucqC7.951$SE4.15133_at_newscontent-01.sprint.ca...
> > > I am trying to insatll Oracle 8.1.7 on Windows XP running on Pentium
4
> > with
> > > 256 ram. When I hit the Install button, the hourglass cursor appears
for
> a
> > > short period of time (2-5 seconds), and then the installation progarm
> > > disappears.
> > > Any idea what the problem might be.
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>
Received on Sun Oct 28 2001 - 13:09:46 CST